The Complete Git Guide: Understand and master Git and GitHub

Complete Git and GitHub guide (23 HOURS) - Master all Git features: commits, branches, merging, rebasing and squashing

Created by: Bogdan Stashchuk | 300K Students Worldwide | MBA, PhD
Programming, IT, DevOps, Security, Computer Networks Courses

What Will I Learn?

• Deeply understand how Git works under the hood
• Use Git not just in terminal but also in graphical user interfaces like GitHub Desktop, SourceTree, Visual Studio Code
• Learn different GIt objects - blobs, trees, commits and annotated tags
• Create local and remote Git repositories
• Perform basic and advanced Git operations
• Learn how to perform rebasing and merging of the branches
• Learn what is pull request and how to create pull request at GitHub
• Contribute to public repositories using technique of forks and pull requests from the forked repository
• Understand what is semantic versioning and how to use Git Tags in order to create software release versions
• Learn advanced Git operations - squashing, cherry-picking, amending, reverting commits.

Requirements

• We will start from the very beginning, from basic Git features and move on to advanced techniques and operations
• Prepare only your Mac, Windows or Linux/Unix computer. Anything will work.
• If you are new to Git, please start from the very beginning: learn how Git works and how to perform basic operations (git add, git commit, git branch)
• If you are advanced Git user I highly recommend you to watch "How Git works under the hood" section and then jump to advanced Git features like squashing, cherry-picking etc.

Target audience

• You could be either complete beginner or experienced developer with years of usage of Git
• You may know how to USE Git but you may not know HOW Git works
• If you want to learn HOW and WHY Git and GitHub work - this course is for you!